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Volume 3 Issue 2 (April - June, 2015)

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PERIPHERAL OSSIFYING FIBROMA- A DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA
Anuj Singh Parihar, Sumit Narang, Anu Narang, Rajbir Singh

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1- Department of Periodontology, People’s College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,

2- Department of Conservative Dentistry, People’s Dental Academy, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,

3- Department of Periodontology, Christian Dental College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) is a non-neoplastic enlargement of the gingival, which is one of the main benign, reactive hyperplastic inflammatory lesions of the gingiva occurring in young adults. It has a very high recurrence rate of around 7-45%. For this reason, a longer patient follow-up is very important in POF. Peripheral ossifying fibroma comprises about 9% of all gingival growths. POF has similar clinical presentations with different lesions which makes it difficult to reach at a correct diagnosis.  In this article, we are reporting a case of peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) in a 16-year-old female patient.
Key Words: Fibrous hyperplasia, Peripheral ossifying fibroma, Peripheral giant cell granuloma, Pyogenic granuloma

CORRESPONDING Author: Dr. Anuj Singh Parihar, Post Graduate Student, People’s College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, E-mail address: dr.anujparihar@gmail.com

This article may be cited as:   Parihar AS, Narang S, Narang A, Singh R. Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma: A Diagnostic Dilemma. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2015;3(2):162-164.

 
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